"Come, this is where my sister lives! Mrs. Xia, Little Sister Xia, please! When they arrived at the door of the pavilion, the third lady warmly beckoned Mrs. Xia and Xia Yingying in.

On the way, Mrs. Xia and Xia Yingying had already discussed, let Yingying return to Guiyang as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a very terrifying thing for the most powerful man in the world to think about. But since there are three ladies to invite each other, you might as well come and go.

After all, the Son of Heaven has the dignity of the Son of Heaven, not a squire bully, even if he is fighting Yingying's idea, he does not dare to rob it openly, and he does not have to leave the capital like fleeing for his life.

Moreover, establishing friendship with the third lady will always help the Xia family, after all, they are the de facto monarchs, and since they have this opportunity, they cannot let it go. At the same time, the third lady is also the best shield, and it will be safe to be with her.

The three ladies live in the pavilion, not the special building of the Siyi Pavilion, although both are under the control of the Ministry of Rites, the meaning is very different.

Siyi Pavilion is for foreign envoys to live, is the residence of envoys from other countries, this envoy from other countries can be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, or it can be a foreign envoy sent by a foreign country to contact with the Ming Dynasty.

But the third lady has always regarded herself as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and took the initiative to ask to live in the pavilion, instead of living in the Siyi Pavilion as an envoy, and the Ming Dynasty is naturally happy to do so.

It's just that although the pavilion is also quiet and elegant, the decoration is magnificent, which is inferior to the Siyi Pavilion for foreign envoys in terms of scale and grade. In order not to make the third lady feel that she was being treated coldly, the Daming Rite Department also took great pains.

Before the arrival of the three ladies, the Ministry of Rites deliberately renovated and renovated the pavilion, and demolished the courtyard walls of the three independent courtyards where the first-class officials and the feudal officials lived when they entered Beijing, and turned them into a very spacious courtyard.

Ye Xiaotian lives in this pavilion, but the Woniuling Toast is not enough in the eyes of the court bosses, and he is now a guilty body, so it is impossible to have too good treatment, so Ye Xiaotian's residence is in a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere. It's a world of difference from this mansion.

The third lady is very hospitable, after she arrived in the capital, she met all the court officials, and the official reception courtesy specifications were high enough, but she also had to hold the shelf from time to time, and that kind of entertainment was not hard. Now that she met someone who made her fall in love at first sight, and she was also a woman, the third lady was very happy, and as soon as she arrived at the pavilion, she ordered someone to prepare a banquet immediately.

The third lady even wanted to order someone to buy a sheep, so she set up a fire in the yard to roast a whole sheep for the little girl she had just recognized. The people of the steppe. It is very neat to pick up the whole sheep, but it will not take a lot of time.

However, there is a fresh whole sheep just bought this morning in the pavilion, and the cook is about to disassemble it with a bone-dissolving knife, and is seen by the three ladies and wants to go directly, so he sets up a charcoal fire in the yard, and after a while, the whole pavilion is full of the fragrance of mutton.

If another person did this, he would have been protested by other officials who went to Beijing on business, and the pavilion would have stopped it. But this is the third lady, so everyone has to pretend not to see it, even if she has a whim, she wants to set up a tent in the pavilion. Plant grass next to it, put a few sheep, and the pavilion will try to cooperate.

Ye Xiaotian was not in the pavilion at this time, he was rushing to Xia Yingying's residence. Ye Xiaotian bought some expensive gifts on the road. Since I want to see my mother-in-law, the ceremony cannot be abolished. To please his mother-in-law, he will have a good life.

Unexpectedly, when Ye Xiaotian arrived at Xia Yingying's residence. was told that Yingying was taken to the palace by a father-in-law early in the morning, saying that the old lady was suffering from a sudden illness. Ye Xiaotian spent the afternoon in the Xia family, and couldn't help but worry.

Yingying hasn't come back yet, it seems that her mother-in-law is really sick. Ye Xiaotian couldn't wait any longer in the Xia family, so he said goodbye to the people who stayed in the Xia Mansion and went directly to the palace.

Ye Xiaotian couldn't enter the palace or inquire about the news in the palace, but Yingying was in the palace, and her entourage and subordinates must be waiting outside the palace.

Ye Xiaotian was worried that he would staggered with Yingying on the way to the palace, so he divided the guards into three squads, and sent two teams of two people each to find the imperial city from the other two main streets, and he took the other guards to go from the main street. Ye Xiaotian was originally from the capital, and he was still very familiar with the roads in the capital.

Ye Xiaotian rushed to the imperial city and ran directly to the harem gate. Because most of the ministers and daughters walked through the back door, but when he arrived at the back city of Da Nei, he didn't see the guards of the Xia family near the left, so Ye Xiaotian hurriedly walked around the front door.

When he arrived outside the noon gate, because the hundred officials had already gone down to the court, there were almost no official eunuchs waiting in front of the noon gate, so it was not difficult to investigate, but this time he inquired, but there was still no Xia family entourage among them.

Ye Xiaotian inquired about the guards in front of the noon gate, and these guards were very impressed by the fiery little beauty, and they all remembered her leaving, so they said to Ye Xiaotian that the girl left with the Mongolian three ladies.

Ye Xiaotian asked them about the residence of the third lady again, where did these palace gate guards know, Ye Xiaotian thought about it, and suddenly remembered that he had an acquaintance in the Ministry of Rites, Lin Shilang! Ye Xiaotian gathered his three people and turned back to the Ministry of Rites.

Although it was a bit of a fuss to disturb a squire who was disturbing people's houses because of such a trivial matter, Ye Xiaotian couldn't take care of it much at this time. At that time, it will be an excuse to ask the court what to do with itself.

When Lin Shilang heard that Ye Xiaotian asked to see him, he was slightly stunned at first. As a minister who treats crimes, it is not impossible to move around when he has a relationship in Jingli, but he is generally dressed up in disguise and quietly visits the door, and it is rare for Ye Xiaotian to visit the door in such a big way.

Lin Shilang shook his head slightly, and smiled: "In the end, his background is too low, and his knowledge is short." Although he is alert and clever, he doesn't know much about these people. ”

Lin Shilang didn't see him, but after thinking about it, he still ordered: "Call him in!" ”

The civil officials are powerful, and when it comes to officials at the level of Lin Shilang, it is not very taboo for the emperor to know about it. Moreover, Ye Xiaotian is the figure that their Eagle Party must protect, and the reasons for protecting him are very strong and upright, even if he is not afraid to say it bluntly in front of the emperor, he will be calm when he sees him.

Ye Xiaotian was waiting outside the yamen, and the official wanted to lead him in, and it would take a while to rush to Lin Shilang's signing room through the hall, Lin Shilang put aside the unfinished official case, leaned on the back of the chair, and closed his eyes slightly. Ye Xiaotian involuntarily remembered his ambition, to be precise, the ambition of a hawkish official.

The origin of many things is actually just because of an opportunity, and the same is true for this hawkish force in the imperial court.

In fact, the idea of changing the land and returning to the river in the southwest border was once an overwhelming opinion in the court as early as the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties. Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle had calculated the Southwest Tusi, and the Hongwu Emperor made a move, which laid a hidden danger for the disputes between Sinan and Sizhou, and it was not until the Yongle Emperor that it fermented and matured, causing a war.

Emperor Yongle did not let go of this opportunity. He took the opportunity to depose the two Si Tusi, divided the two prefectures into eight prefectures, and disintegrated one of the four major warlords in Guizhou. If the Yongle Emperor pursues the victory, with his eloquence and strategy, he may not be able to solve the southwest problem in his lifetime. However, from the point of view of the supreme ruler of an empire, he has something more important: the Northern Yuan!

The Northern Yuan had been driven back to the steppes and split into two groups, the Tatars and the Warats. But their strength is still not to be underestimated, Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing, on the grounds that the Son of Heaven was guarding the country, trying to completely solve the northern border troubles. For this reason, he made five expeditions to Mobei, and the shift of the strategic center of gravity made him have to temporarily put aside the relatively unurgent southwest issue.

As a result, the Southwestern issue has been dragged on. Since Emperor Yongle, the northern border has always been the most concerned issue for the imperial court, especially after the imperial court moved the capital. It is close to the north, and it has to pay special attention, and during the period, there is also the problem of Jiaozhi in the east, and there is really no time to take care of the southwest, so the toast masters have lived a peaceful life for hundreds of years.

Originally, the southwest issue would never have become the focus of attention of the imperial court until the threat of the northern grasslands was completely resolved, but at this time, an incident happened that attracted the attention of the imperial court to the southwest again: the southern Sichuan servants rebelled!

The servants of southern Sichuan have never bought the emperor's account, they occupy the mountains as kings, divide land to collect rent, often send troops to harass the surrounding prefectures and counties, and simply raise troops to rebel after being reprimanded and punished by the imperial court.

When the imperial court was studying how to deal with it, most of the officials advocated pacification, but Zhang Juzheng, who had just become the first assistant at that time, strongly advocated severe punishment. Zhang Juzheng said to the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officers with great vigour: "If I can't pacify the place, I am willing to resign from the position of first assistant!" As a result, the imperial court could only choose to use troops against southern Sichuan.

Zhang Juzheng actually has his political purpose in doing this. Just as Yang Guang seized Yang Yong's position, Li Shimin seized Li Jiancheng's position, and Zhao Guangyi seized Zhao Defang's position, the person who seized the throne always felt that he was not in the right position and needed great merit to consolidate his reputation and status, and Zhang Juzheng also had this concern.

At that time, Zhang Juzheng had just become the first assistant, and he was far from reaching the point of intimidating the Son of Heaven in the later period, suppressing hundreds of officials, and being the only one in heaven and on earth.

Before Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant minister was Gao Gong, Gao Gong was domineering and domineering, and his sex was like fire, which was his shortcoming, but as the first assistant, he worked hard to make the country prosperous, and he made outstanding achievements in politics within a few years, which was also his ability, so his position was very stable at that time.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to become the first assistant, the biggest obstacle was Gao Gong, and at that time, Emperor Wanli had just succeeded to the throne, at the age of ten, Gao Gong felt that the Son of Heaven was young, the inner court was powerful, and it was easy to have hidden dangers, and wanted to weaken the power of the eunuchs, so there was a great contradiction with the eunuchs in the inner court.

Zhang Juzheng saw that this was an opportunity, so he befriended Feng Bao, the great eunuch of the inner court, and joined forces to deal with Gao Gong. When Wanli succeeded to the throne, Gao Gong was worried that the Son of Heaven would be young and the country would be in turmoil. ”

But Zhang Juzheng teamed up with Feng Bao to change this sentence to "How can a ten-year-old child be the master?" And secretly reported to the queen mother, saying that Gao Gong intended to cut the power of the celebrant first, centralize power in the cabinet, and then force the palace to support an adult vassal king as the emperor.

The queen mother was shocked when she heard this, and immediately took the lead and put Gao Gong in prison, wanting to be executed, but fortunately, Yang Bo, the secretary of the ministry, and Ge Shouli, the imperial historian, and others rescued them with all their might, so they were saved from death and returned to their hometowns.

When Gao Gong was first in trouble, Zhang Juzheng also went to visit, comforted him in every way, and wrote a book to intercede for him, Gao Gong was also very grateful, but paper could not contain the fire, and the truth was gradually heard by Gao Gong.

Gao Gong has been holding back, until he died of illness, he wrote four volumes of "The Last Words of the Sickbed", writing out the process of Zhang Juzheng colluding with Feng Baoyin to seize the position of the first assistant, and scolded Zhang Juzheng for being insidious and poisonous, "being a master and a ghost again, playing the flute, pinching his eyes, playing the drum and playing the pipa".

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli counterattacked, and Gao Gong's suicide note was published in the world, but before that, most of the ministers of the court knew the truth, and in this matter, Zhang Ju was a personal deed, so he just ascended to the position of first assistant, and he needed a military merit to stabilize his position.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng advocated the use of force to deter the illegal Tusi and adjust the unreasonable administrative divisions on the borders of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces, so as to unify the power of affairs and make the local officials act on their own devices. In this way, he needs a group of ministers to answer his call and carry out these things concretely.

In this case, Qiao Hanwen, Yan Yifei, Ye Mengxiong, Li Hualong, Dang Tenghui, Lin Siyan, Yu Wuguo and other young and middle-aged civil and military officials with similar aspirations entered his sight and became the team of his strategy in southern Sichuan.

Originally, they had only one purpose: to solve the problem of the servants in southern Sichuan by force!

This matter was successfully resolved, the servants were suppressed by force, their land was changed and returned to the stream, and they were completely incorporated into the rule of the liuguan, and Zhang Juzheng's position as the first assistant was completely stabilized because of this military operation, and he began to shift his goals, and set his sights on vigorously rectifying the domestic political environment and economic development.

For Zhang Juzheng, the southern Sichuan problem has been solved, at least at this stage, the problems that need to be solved urgently have been solved, but for these young and middle-aged ministers, this is only the beginning.

The smooth solution of the problem of the servants in southern Sichuan has opened a window in their hearts, and they are even more radical than Zhang Juzheng on the issue of completely incorporating the southwest into the direct rule of the imperial court, and they did not completely withdraw some of their eyeliners and undercover agents in southern Sichuan according to Zhang Juzheng's request, but set their sights on the south of Sichuan: Guizhou!

Over the years, they have never given up this effort, although they are getting older, their official positions and status are constantly rising, but the original ideal has always been hidden in their hearts, and now it is being realized step by step.

Thinking of this, the corners of Lin Siyan's mouth couldn't help but show a smile of relief: "The eldest husband can't eat five tripods in life, and he should cook five tripods in death!" To do the next great feat that will last for a hundred years, it will be in vain to walk this way in the world! ”

"Lord Squire, Toast Ye has arrived."

"The chief official of the lower official Woniu, Ye Xiaotian, ask to see!"

Two voices came from outside the door one after another, Lin Siyan slowly opened his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Come in!" ”

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(To be continued......)